Mickey W. Mantle > Quotes

“Most programmers have a built-in bias toward being cowboys rather than farmers. That is, when a problem arises, their first inclination is to “jump on their horse and ride off” to solve the problem single-handedly. They too often skip planning, and that results in one-off solutions that could have better leveraged standards, practices, and their team. You want your software development to be more like farming. Farmers are methodical in knowing the lay of the land, studying its current chemical makeup, planting, watering, weeding, and harvesting their crops. Software that is reliable, extensible, and maintainable is developed just as methodically.”
― Mickey W. Mantle, Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Managing Software People and Teams

“Any code of your own that you haven’t looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else.”
― Mickey W. Mantle, Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Managing Software People and Teams

“Eagleson’s Law applies: “Any code of your own that you haven’t looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else.”
― Mickey W. Mantle, Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Managing Software People and Teams

“Managers must cultivate a software development culture built upon solid development practices, or programming projects will likely fail.”
― Mickey W. Mantle, Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Managing Software People and Teams